Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
    72·
    3 days ago

    The older games and even going as recently as the PS4 and XB1 generation, will still be around for the foreseeable future in both official and unofficial capacities, though, with some of those previous-generation titles even having an official DRM-free release on GOG to boot.

    And really, there’s nothing interesting in the current generation outside of indie stuff, as far as the big AAA releases go, they largely appear to be slop this generation.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      813·
      3 days ago

      And, once again, nobody cares.

      You are substituting your interests for the market. I’m happy that you’re happy with what you have, but your opinion isn’t relevant here.

      What is relevant is what is installed in the hardware that is selling and will sell in the next few years. Nobody is shipping 5700s on prebuilts in 2026.

      You want to see Linux in more systems? You get that by selling more systems with preinstalled Linux that don’t give people an incentive to revert them back to Windows and by getting more people with preinstalled Windows on new systems to at least dual boot.

      You and I are sunk cost. We’re the residual 2% of users that were already using Linux before Valve shipped one prebuilt handheld system with that level of setup. I care about people buying the second one from Lenovo and about convincing Asus to make more of these and eventually about extending those options to tablets, prebuilts and laptops as well as handhelds.

      That’s how you both increase the Linux install base and add more third party support on both drivers and software. And hey, good news, you get to keep replaying Bioshock all you want forever. But you’re not the priority here.